Category: Iranian Revolutionary Guard

The moderate mien of Iran’s new president Hassan Rouhani has had its intended effect – even before nuclear dialogue began. President Barack Obama had only one demand of Tehran: “Iran would have to demonstrate its own seriousness by agreement not to weaponise nuclear power,” he said Wednesday, Sept. 18. He thus took at his word Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who declared the day before: “We are against nuclear weapons. And when we say no one should have nuclear weapons, we definitely do not pursue it ourselves either.”

The National Security Agency (NSA) is giving some of the secreted and stored information from our emails, Tweets, Facebook messages, and phone calls to the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) own Drug Enforcement Agency. The sharing is illegal. The DOJ wants…

Reports are circulating today that Bashir Assad, Syria’s president was shot by one of his own guards – well maybe not his own, but a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, “in charge of presidential security.” If this is true,…

A 32-year-old Iranian who is a U.S. citizen and a Christian convert has been imprisoned without notice of any formal charges while visiting his family in Iran, according to his wife and attorneys in the U.S., who are now hoping that a media campaign will help set him free.

Prominent human rights advocate and attorney Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, who represents the Christian pastor sentenced to death in Iran in a case that sparked international condemnation, has reportedly been sentenced to nine years in jail for allegedly “acting against national security” in Iran.

Last month, Congressman Peter King released the finding of his research of Hezbollah and concluded that hundreds of Hezbollah members are already inside the United States. Also last month, Major Gen. Paul Vallely’s website revealed that a U.S. Citizen, who…

An explosion at the Iranian Revolutionary Corps Guards (IRCG) ammo depot killed at least 15 today. Weapons were being moved inside the depot when a portion of the storage facility exploded. There were actually three blasts – two of them…

Last year the Iranians decided that Star Wars was the look for them. This year it is a cross between Lady Gaga and a Bad Hair Day. But once again the Iranian Army has trotted out their “New Look” for the year:

by Maggie • August 4, 2011 • Comments Off on Rostam Ghasemi New Iranian Head of OPEC: Iran’s Rev Guard Commander Heads OPEC

Never mind that Ghasemi is under sanctions by the EU, the US and Australia. Never mind that his personal assets have been blacklisted by the U.S. Treasury. He is the new head of OPEC. Rostam Ghasemi will be at the…